On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:35 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: >Panu Matilainen wrote : > >> Thanks, looks good. One thing which is open to discussion I think is >> post-release non-numeric versions like 1.0 -> 1.0a where the 'a' doesn't >> *have* to move to release tag from rpm's POV. I don't mind either way, >> perhaps it's best to KISS (like the current draft has) and simply move >> *all* non-numeric bits to release instead of having separate cases for >> pre- and post-releases. > >Same here... the gkrellm post-release example where the "a" is moved to the >release doesn't seem necessary to me, as it'll go incrementing. Pretty much >like 1.0 -> 1.0pl1 -> 1.1 which won't cause any trouble. Doing it the way I've documented makes it less likely that we'll hit the need for Epoch in a lot of cases. And the cases like gkrellm fit in nicely enough both ways so it can't hurt to standardize it in the non-numeric release case for packagers that are new (or just confused). Basically, I think the documented method is the simplest method. Hopefully, the Fedora Core folks will see it that way as well, but if not, we'll manage somehow. ;) > ~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Sales Engineer || GPG Fingerprint: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
